We are fortunate to work with a couple of wonderful Lao English teachers. They teach right after us, so they explain what was not clear to the students from our classes. Teamwork!
It is sad that we will only teach our students until September, because we are enjoying spending our mornings with them. Their great attitude and happy faces make for a great beginning to our days.
Children's Day is a fun day for all children as they get to perform for their parents and teachers, eat treats, and play games with prizes. Some of our students are teachers and were helping make a fun day for the children, so were not able to join us for breakfast.
With one of the Lao teachers and her supervisor. The other teacher was helping at the Children's Day celebrations and was unfortunately not able to come.
Craig's pictures and commentary (children's photos taken and posted with permission):
This week was highlighted by two events:
National Children's Day (what a great idea, we should have this back home too!)
Sharing breakfast with our English student friends - they are a very enjoyable group of characters!
We also visited the Golden Stupa: a national monument that was first constructed almost 1,800 years ago. It's been damaged several times in its history, but always rebuilt!
National Children's Day (what a great idea, we should have this back home too!)
Sharing breakfast with our English student friends - they are a very enjoyable group of characters!
We also visited the Golden Stupa: a national monument that was first constructed almost 1,800 years ago. It's been damaged several times in its history, but always rebuilt!
Cute Hmong (an ethnic group living mainly in China and Southeast Asia) children in their beautiful traditional clothing. We have wonderful Hmong friends who live in California and Utah, as well as here in Laos.
The Deseret International Charities' (DIC) English students who were able to come to breakfast. If we had known it coincided with Children's Day we would have chosen a different day.
One of the student's beautiful plate.
The Golden Stupa, The Great Stupa, or Pha That Luang. It is believed to contain a breast bone of the Buddha, so is a sacred structure. This is not the original stupa as that one was heavily damaged by the Siamese. What we see was rebuilt after WWII. The gold color on the main tower is from being covered with 500 kg (1,100 lbs) of gold leaf and other precious metals.
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